Improvement in mop-wringers



UNITED' STATES PATENT. CFFICE.

HENRY I. HOTOHKISS, on BERLIN FALLS, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOP-WRINGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,678, dated March 14, 1876; application filed J annary 26, 1876.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY I. HOTOHKISS, of Berlin Falls, of the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire have invented a new and useful Mop-Wring'er, and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 .is a top view, andFig. 2 a side elevation of the said mop-wringer. Fig. 3 is a top view and Fig. 4 a front elevation of a socket-piece for supporting such Wringer over a tub.

The said socket-piece has a tapering mortise or hole, to, extending through it to receive the tenon or ear I) that extends down from the wringer, as shown in the drawings. The socket-piece is to be fastened to the inner surface of a tub, and at or near its top, by means of screws 0 c and nuts (I d. The wring'er A, besides the tenon or ear I), is composed of a ring,

0, and a series of conico-spiral bars, f f f f, ex-

tending therefrom and united together at their lower ends, all substantially as represented.

ported at its vertex in a bar extending wholly or partially across a-tub. In my wringer the support is at the ring, whereby the whole wringer is brought practically Within the tub.

I therefore claim-- The inop-wringer, composed of the rings and series of couico-spiral bars f f ff-and the tenon or ear 1), arranged as set forth.

' HENRY I. HOTGHKISS.

Witnesses: v

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

